Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

imagistic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.34 in modern English

Syllables: imag-is-tic
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or pertaining to imagism.

adj

Alternative form of imagistic.

Example Sentences

"So much 'performance art' tends to be a kind of closed, aloof, imagistic, private vision."
"The same will be true of Imagism: a certain degree of variation from a purist definition of the school will take us to a kind of poetry that “Imagism" can no longer describe, although we may still wish to speak of Imagistic tendencies or echoes in the derivative verse."

Etymology

From imagist + -ic or image + -istic.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: imagist, image
Suffix: -ic, -istic

Inflected Forms

more imagistic (comparative) most imagistic (superlative)

Derived Forms

imagistically

Questions

What does imagistic mean?: Of or pertaining to imagism.
Where does imagistic come from?: From imagist + -ic or image + -istic.

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